01 Identity
Scottish charity record
- OSCR charity number
- SC015079
- Status
- Active
- Regulatory type
- Standard
- Designated religious body
- No
- Geographical spread
- A specific local point, community or neighbourhood
- Volunteers
- 1-50 volunteers
- Staff
- 4
- Postcode
- EH33 2NA
02 Purpose and work
What the charity exists to do
The charity provides a welfare institute for use by the local community to take part in leisure time activities.
Charitable purposes
- the advancement of citizenship or community development
- the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage
Beneficiaries
- Children or young people
- Older People
- No specific group, or for the benefit of the community
Activities
- It carries out activities or services itself
Constitutional objectives
To provide facilities for such forms of recreation and other leasure-time occupation as are conducive to the improvement of the conditions of living of the inhabitants of Elphinstone and the neighbourfood thereof within the Society's sphere of operations as defined from time to time and in particular (but not exclusively) such of the inhabitants as are members of the Mining Community provided that nothing herein contained shall authorise the applicaion of the Property to purposes which are not in law charitable. The Society shall not be identified with any party or sect.
03 Annual returns
Income and expenditure history
| Year end | Income | Expenditure | Staff | Return received |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 January 2025 | £8,734 | £7,069 | 4 | 15 September 2025 |
| 31 January 2024 | £9,698 | £10,824 | 4 | 15 September 2025 |
| 31 January 2023 | £0 | £0 | 4 | Not supplied |
| 31 January 2022 | £0 | £0 | 4 | Not supplied |
| 31 January 2020 | £6,966 | £12,733 | 4 | 13 September 2021 |
Figures are those reported by the charity and supplied in the OSCR bulk download. Blank facts remain distinct from zero.
04 Contact record
Principal office or trustees address
- Address supplied to OSCR
- Elphinstone Miners' Charitable Society, 5 South Elphinstone Road, ELPHINSTONE, East Lothian
- Website supplied to OSCR
- Not supplied
- Parent charity
- Not supplied
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05 Provenance
Source for this profile
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